Example sentences of "[conj] [pn reflx] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 The actual administration of services authorized by Acts is a process that itself contributes to the making of social policy .
2 The prosody of Dame Sirith may be unobtrusive , but as such it represents a smooth and polished performance that itself contributes to the tone of the work .
3 In its ‘ manufacture ’ of proteins , DNA is assisted by a subsidiary nucleic acid , called ribonucleic acid or RNA ; and in some viruses RNA completely replaces DNA , and itself acts as the genes .
4 As she confessed much later , it was not the thought of failure which made Bradlaugh and herself pause at the outset :
5 She argues the case through a reading of a history painting ‘ Zeuxis Choosing his Models for the Painting of Helen of Troy ’ of the late 1770s in which one of the female figures stands behind the classical Greek artist and herself reaches for the chalk to start on the blank canvas beside her , and through a self portrait ‘ Angelica Kauffman Hesitating between the Arts of Music and Painting ’ ( 1794 ) .
6 Her brother did not know the reason and needed a woman to get close to her , and he was prepared to put up with both Mitch and herself to get to the bottom of things .
7 On the following day , Sunday , 29th December , Ernest Baird , Joan Waters and myself re-met at the Baird home .
8 Our daughter is soon to be married and I shall be giving her away , but she would like both her stepfather and myself to speak at the reception .
9 Is that not a crushing answer to those who would maintain that Miller and myself live in the same flat ?
10 Two key assumptions lie behind the senior chief inspector and myself arriving at the figure of 175 .
11 I started keeping any post connected with finance away from him , and myself dealt with the usual household accounts such as the telephone and electricity , because even they sent him into a frenzy of checking and referring back to previous demands , an attitude completely alien to his normal temperament .
12 He catches sight of the mortar team and myself sitting on the grass drinking our tea .
13 I am delighted that the hon. Gentleman is looking forward to my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister and myself going to the G7 summit in mid-July .
14 At Mohnyin ten convalescent officers and twenty-eight men , the two faithful sergeants and myself got off the hospital train and made for the hospital of the BCMS where Dr Russell and the two nursing sisters took us all in and gave medical treatment to those needing it .
15 In my mind , I had pictured Charles , Anne and myself standing in the middle of an otherwise empty common room , sherry glass in hand , desperately trying to think of something to say to each other .
16 The Deputy Under Secretary had no one but himself to blame for the irritation that his starched collar created just below the line of his neatly cut hair .
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